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This is my nominee for least-covered, least-understood story of the decade. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is the righteous and plausible path to ending the Electoral College. No constitutional amendment required.
That seems too good to be true. Also, to wrap your head around it requires a bit of effort. It’s almost like (content warning!) math.
But take a minute or two, and the light will dawn. This could happen. And it should.

Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote
One-page explanation (PDF) The National Popular Vote law will guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. It will apply the one-person-one-vote principle to presidential elections, and make every vote equal. Why a National Popular Vote for President Is Needed The shortcomings of the current system stem from “winner-take-all” laws that award all of a state’s electoral votes to the candidate receiving the most …

HHS Orders Hospitals To Get Written Patient Consent Before Conducting Prostate And Pelvic Examinations - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/04/hhs-orders-hospitals-to-get-written-patien…

HHS Orders Hospitals To Get Written Patient Consent Before Conducting Prostate And Pelvic Examinations
The New York Times reports: The Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday that hospitals must obtain written informed consent from patients before they undergo sensitive examinations — li

Ukraine unveils an AI-generated foreign ministry spokesperson called Victoria Shi, who will make official statements "written and verified by real people" (Agence France-Presse)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/art

dbpedia_writer: DBpedia writer network (2014)
A bipartite network of writers and the written works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 135569 nodes and 144340 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia…

HIlarious thread started by @… of danes, dutch, germans and swedes slagging off the length of words and sounds in each others languages.
But seriously, have you ever seen Greenlandic (Kalaallisut) written down ?
One day I'm going to try and learn some of this language. But not today...
https://mastodon.nu/@Loukas/112206628881884991

I recently needed a script to convert mbox files to maildir, and to my surprise this was a nontrivial problem. I only found one written in perl that didn't work with my mbox files. As I don't speak perl, rather than trying to fix it I wrote one in python. It's very simple, as python's standard library already brings all the functionality, in case anyone needs it:

GitHub - hannob/mbox2maildir: Script to convert between mbox and maildir format
Script to convert between mbox and maildir format. Contribute to hannob/mbox2maildir development by creating an account on GitHub.

Russian Media Monitoring: Examining Ukraine’s Temporary Derogation of ECHR Rights Written by Matt Wickham UCMC/HWAG analyst Russian propaganda seeks to depict human rights in Ukraine as deteriorating, Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/russian-media-

Israeli spy chief exposes his identity in online security lapse: Yossi Sariel unmasked as head of Unit 8200 & architect of AI strategy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/top-israeli-spy-chief-exp…

OpSec is difficult, even for professionals.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/top-israeli-spy-chief-exposes-his-true-identity-in-online-security-lapse

Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse | Israel | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/top-israeli-spy-chief-exposes-his-true-identity-in-online-security-lapse<…

Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse
The identity of the commander of Israel’s Unit 8200 is a closely guarded secret. He occupies one of the most sensitive roles in the military, leading one of the world’s most powerful surveillance agencies, comparable to the US National Security Agency.
Yet after spending more than two decades operating in the shadows, the Guardian can reveal how the controversial spy chief – whose name is

Booked the BC Ferry trip. Added in my own (in green) little CO2 emissions counter with the hope that the Ferry Gods will see this and apply the same transparency to all receipts. :)
#BCFerry #BCPoli

Well, this is not something I ever thought I'd hear.
#Piano covers of #orchestral / vocal /whatever pieces? Fairly common.
Doing the opposite, orchestrating a piece that was originally written for solo piano, is decidely less so. But this is what happens when a film composer gets his hand…

OK, this time I’ll do it the right way around:
Later today I’ll send out a new newsletter (yes, already!) announcing my packaging video and adding some production context. If that’s something you find interesting, subscribe now and rejoice later: https://buttondown.email/hynek

Hynek Did Something
Greetings friend! This is a list for those who’d like to be notified whenever Hynek Schlawack does or publishes something noteworthy, somewhere. Examples are new blog posts, YouTube videos, and talks, or significant updates to existing work. It does not include announcements about new software releases. As a thank you for your trust, the emails aren’t just links to content. They contain a kind of “director's commentary”, explaining what I did and why – written as if I’d be explaini…

Yep, some are not going to make it...
#Pizza #Warning

I’m sure others have already written about this topic at length, but it really seems like something needs to be said about the inherent Web supply chain instability caused by centralization.
Just like in the world of physical goods, it turns out that “shipping” in all our web apps from a very small number of very large players is destabilizing, who’d have thought right?

"A c implementation of tic-tac-toe in a single call to printf. Written for IOCCC 2020." – Nicholas Carlini
https://github.com/carlini/printf-tac-toe

A day after apologizing for blocking Kansas Reflector posts, Meta blocked links to two sites that reposted a Reflector column; Meta says it's investigating (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)
https://kansasreflector.com/2024/0…

Facebook apologizes for blocking Kansas Reflector, then expands crackdown to other news sites • Kansas Reflector
TOPEKA — A day after a Facebook spokesman apologized for blocking Kansas Reflector articles by mistake, the social media giant blocked all links to two other news sites that republished a Kansas Reflector column. Facebook on Friday removed posts pointing to The Handbasket, which is written by independent journalist Marisa Kabas, as well as posts […]

#Parody #NYTimesPitchbot
Via New York Times Pitchbot @DougJBalloon
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Today's exemplary Supreme Court ruling is a reminder that the 14th Amendment has nothing to do with Donald Trump, who wasn't alive when it was written, and everything to do with Joe Bi…

This story is absolutely wild. What the heck?!
#covid19 #vaccines
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-68477735

German patient vaccinated against Covid 217 times
Researchers have written up the unusual case in a medical journal.

Retraction Watch is now listing papers which seem to be AI-generated.
What I would like to know is how many of these authors thought they were at the cutting edge of high-tech hi-efficiency science by using AI (It's the future! Everything has changed!), and how many just knew they were cheating.

Papers and peer reviews with evidence of ChatGPT writing
Retraction Watch readers have likely heard about papers showing evidence that they were written by ChatGPT, including one that went viral. We and others have reported on the phenomenon. Here’…

One of the problems I have with these sorts of stories is that it's written as though this is the first time he has used the word. Like hearing about a person making a racist comment, it is unlikely it's the first time a person has used this language, it may just be the first time they've been caught using them.
AFL boss Andrew Dillon issues 'please explain' to Alastair Clarkson over alleged homophobic slur aimed at Jimmy Webster - ABC News

AFL boss Andrew Dillon issues 'please explain' to Alastair Clarkson over alleged homophobic slur aimed at Jimmy Webster
Andrew Dillon issues a 'please explain' to Kangaroos coach Alastair Clarkson after he allegedly used a homophobic slur aimed at Saints player Jimmy Webster.

Genuine question: Do people who write primarily in MS Word not find it actively hostile to the process of writing?
Case in point: as I'm editing a manuscript with track changes enabled, it will regularly delete between 1 and 15 words that I've just written. This seems to happen mainly when it's auto-correcting a regular quote to curly quote, or multiple hyphens to an em dash. But it's not that predictable. (I'm using the web version, in MS Edge, since I'm on Lin…

I really should try and become a professional social media food influencer, I can actually write a written review with real words and terms.
Or I can just get invited to openings by being nice instead.

This is my nominee for least-covered, least-understood story of the decade. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is the righteous and plausible path to ending the Electoral College. No constitutional amendment required.
That seems too good to be true. Also, to wrap your head around it requires a bit of effort. It’s almost like (content warning!) math.
But take a minute or two, and the light will dawn. This could happen. And it should.

Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote
One-page explanation (PDF) The National Popular Vote law will guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. It will apply the one-person-one-vote principle to presidential elections, and make every vote equal. Why a National Popular Vote for President Is Needed The shortcomings of the current system stem from “winner-take-all” laws that award all of a state’s electoral votes to the candidate receiving the most …

Kiran Ostrolenk, a software engineer at Codethink, has written an article about lessons learned while building a Rusty distributed system!
Check it out: https://www.codethink.co.uk/articles/2024/distributed_system_rust/

Lessons learnt from building a distributed system in Rust

Some things we learnt when trying to build complex Rust software to a tight deadline

George Monbiot (who I *think* is @…) has written about a local conspiracy theorist.

breaking news!
macOS is a system written to bork a lot!

Das neue Buch von Tom Burgis ist da.
“For two centuries the pursuit of the truth grew steadily more democratic,” Burgis writes. But now the powerful “are making a renewed claim to the greatest prize of all: to own the truth. We risk a return to feudal reality, where the word of the strong, of the rich, is gospel.”
Wie bei "Kleptopia" begleitet von endlosen Auseinandersetzungen mit denen, die Wahrheit als Asset betrachten. Wissenschaft wird nach Journalismus dran sein.…

Happy birthday #LISP 𝛌🎂𝛌
Today is the anniversary of AIM-8, the memo that McCarthy wrote describing LISP and its first implementation, written in 1959.

dbpedia_writer: DBpedia writer network (2014)
A bipartite network of writers and the written works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 135569 nodes and 144340 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia…

Russian Media Monitoring: “Macron and NATO troops to Ukraine” (February 26th–March 3rd) Written by Matt Wickham, UCMC/HWAG analyst This week, Russian propaganda is in a frenzy over the question of whe Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/russian-media-moni…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06937 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

On the $\infty$-topos semantics of homotopy type theory
Many introductions to homotopy type theory and the univalence axiom gloss over the semantics of this new formal system in traditional set-based foundations. This expository article, written as lecture notes to accompany a 3-part mini course delivered at the Logic and Higher Structures workshop at CIRM-Luminy, attempts to survey the state of the art, first presenting Voevodsky's simplicial model of univalent foundations and then touring Shulman's vast generalization, which provides an interpreta…

CASIMIR: A Corpus of Scientific Articles enhanced with Multiple Author-Integrated Revisions
Leane Jourdan, Florian Boudin, Nicolas Hernandez, Richard Dufour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00241

CASIMIR: A Corpus of Scientific Articles enhanced with Multiple Author-Integrated Revisions
Writing a scientific article is a challenging task as it is a highly codified and specific genre, consequently proficiency in written communication is essential for effectively conveying research findings and ideas. In this article, we propose an original textual resource on the revision step of the writing process of scientific articles. This new dataset, called CASIMIR, contains the multiple revised versions of 15,646 scientific articles from OpenReview, along with their peer reviews. Pairs o…

Booked the BC Ferry trip. Added in my own (in green) little CO2 emissions counter with the hope that the Ferry Gods will see this and apply the same transparency to all receipts. :)
#BCFerry #BCPoli

“World leaders are not unaware of the nuclear industry’s long history of failing to deliver on its promises, or of its weakening vital signs. Yet many continue to act as if a ‘nuclear renaissance’ could be around the corner even though nuclear energy’s share of global electricity generation has fallen by almost half from its high of roughly 17 percent in 1996."

Stark warnings about reviving nuclear energy - Beyond Nuclear
Stephanie Cooke, author of “In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age,”  and a former editor of Nuclear Intelligence Weekly, has written an

I have written C# top-level code before, but I'm obviously suffering a "brain freeze" right now: Why does this simple top-level C# statement say "The name 'Console' does not exist in this context", even though I'm compiling with .NET 7.x and .NET 8 (well past .NET 5 that top-level statements need)? 😳
Console.WriteLine("hello world"); //System.Console works
.NET 8:

Hey friends, I'm itching to make a website to re familiarize myself with web tech. I have written some pretty advanced stuff in the past, but that was many years ago now. I'd love to create a huge library of Creative Commons works, something like the Free Music Archive, but bigger and better. Perhaps I can teach myself how federation works?
Sigh. I guess that's what Funkwhale is for. I don't see how I could make my website unique.

One Million Moms Mad At Ham - by Evan Hurst - Wonkette
https://www.wonkette.com/p/one-million-moms-mad-at-ham

One Million Moms Mad At Ham
Not even for a good reason, either. All the meaty sex puns in this post were written by us.

Been looking at #gotoSocial a little.
Decided to go hardcore and build it from source, even though I don't even know the programming language Go that it's written in at all.
Went pretty well building and running it, wasn't difficult and it's easy to understand how to adapt the page templates and things.
Seems like account migration works well enough now.
Didn't notice that I'd failed to build a bunch of assets for a while so couldn't understand why the settings page wasn't working as suggested and pages were weirdly ugly and non-functional.
Building those assets is bloody node again. Annoying. Hoping to avoid that.
Anyway. It looks good. So customizable, no effort to really do a reader but you use phanphy or something for that. All I really want is good customizeable shop-windows and a functional API.
Thinking that's what I'll move to if further experimentation goes well.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10817 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_…

Understanding Documentation Use Through Log Analysis: An Exploratory Case Study of Four Cloud Services
Almost no modern software system is written from scratch, and developers are required to effectively learn to use third-party libraries or software services. Thus, many practitioners and researchers have looked for ways to create effective documentation that supports developers' learning. However, few efforts have focused on how people actually use the documentation. In this paper, we report on an exploratory, multi-phase, mixed methods empirical study of documentation page-view logs from four …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06017 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Deformations of Zappatic stable surfaces and their Galois covers
This paper has an appendix, written by considers some algebraic surfaces that can deform to planar Zappatic stable surfaces with a unique singularity of type En. We prove that the Galois covers of these surfaces are all simply connected of general type, for n>=4, and we give a formula for Chern numbers of such Galois covers. As an application, we prove that such surfaces do not exist for n>30. Furthermore, Kollar improves the result to n>9 in Appendix 5.

"A lot has been written about the Apollo Computer and the true nature of alarms 1201 and 1202. We feel the urge to highlight Margaret Hamilton‘s monumental contributions to the history of the 20th century: not just the code that, at the heist of the first manned Lunar landing, produced one of the most dramatic error codes ever logged in the history of software engineering, but her idea of transforming mere programming into, precisely, software engineering."

Margaret Hamilton
On Sunday, July 20th, 1969, at precisely 20:14:19 UTC, just a mere three minutes before touchdown, the voice of Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. confirmed the "Go for landing" order received from Mission Control together with a phrase nobody wanted to hear at that moment: "Program alarm - 1201."

A day after apologizing for blocking Kansas Reflector posts, Meta blocked links to two sites that reposted a Reflector column; Meta says it's investigating (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)
https://kansasreflector.com/2024/0…

Facebook apologizes for blocking Kansas Reflector, then expands crackdown to other news sites • Kansas Reflector
TOPEKA — A day after a Facebook spokesman apologized for blocking Kansas Reflector articles by mistake, the social media giant blocked all links to two other news sites that republished a Kansas Reflector column. Facebook on Friday removed posts pointing to The Handbasket, which is written by independent journalist Marisa Kabas, as well as posts […]

The worst thing about AI-written papers and AI-written reviews of AI-written papers is that it is bound to get worse, but it won’t crash.
Too many benefit from it, notably BigPub, institutions that love the simplicity of quantitative evaluation, but also academics who thrive in such a system.
For them, the negative impact on science is an externality—and they didn’t care too much about it before either.

The worst thing about AI-written papers and AI-written reviews of AI-written papers is that it is bound to get worse, but it won’t crash.
Too many benefit from it, notably BigPub, institutions that love the simplicity of quantitative evaluation, but also academics who thrive in such a system.
For them, the negative impact on science is an externality—and they didn’t care too much about it before either.

The worst thing about AI-written papers and AI-written reviews of AI-written papers is that it is bound to get worse, but it won’t crash.
Too many benefit from it, notably BigPub, institutions that love the simplicity of quantitative evaluation, but also academics who thrive in such a system.
For them, the negative impact on science is an externality—and they didn’t care too much about it before either.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02725 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Congruence classes for modular forms over small sets
J.P. Serre showed that for any integer $m,~a(n)\equiv 0 \pmod m$ for almost all $n,$ where $a(n)$ is the $n^{\text{th}}$ Fourier coefficient of any modular form with rational coefficients. In this article, we consider a certain class of cuspforms and study $\#\{a(n) \pmod m\}_{n\leq x}$ over the set of integers with $O(1)$ many prime factors. Moreover, we show that any residue class $a\in \mathbb{Z}/m\mathbb{Z}$ can be written as the sum of at most thirteen Fourier coefficients, which are polyn…

A-fucking-men
While I get the “ it would be nice if this was a native app, with the native features that come with it“ my first question with a program is DOES IT RUN ON MY COMPUTER?
If it doesn’t, it really doesn’t fucking matter what it was written in, now does it? https://union.place/@angry_drunk/112…

Genuine question: Do people who write primarily in MS Word not find it actively hostile to the process of writing?
Case in point: as I'm editing a manuscript with track changes enabled, it will regularly delete between 1 and 15 words that I've just written. This seems to happen mainly when it's auto-correcting a regular quote to curly quote, or multiple hyphens to an em dash. But it's not that predictable. (I'm using the web version, in MS Edge, since I'm on Lin…

I asked Google's gemma #LLM to help out modernizing the HTML on wtfismyip.com. It's pretty opinionated:

Armed attack on Zapatista coffee cooperative in Mexico
European and Mexican laws promote war in Chiapas
source (german written): https://w
https://girahh.noblogs.org/post/2024/05/03/armed-attack-on-zapatista-coffee-coope…

#writerscoffeeclub 1 What inspired you to begin writing?
The magic of the written word, the ability to send your mind a hundred years into the future or the past, has been an urge with me ever since I wrote my first word. I was 3,5 years old, and I wrote "Papa". I can honestly say that I've written all my life, I can't remember a time when I didn't write.

John Barth’s brief description of Donald Barthelme’s so-called postmodernist dinners – Biblioklept
https://biblioklept.org/2024/04/03/john-barths-brief-description-of-donald-barthelmes-so-called-postmodernist-…

John Barth’s brief description of Donald Barthelme’s so-called postmodernist dinners
In John Barth’s 1989 New York Times eulogy for Donald Barthelme, Barth gives a brief description of two so-called postmodernist dinners, both of which I’ve written on this blog before. ……

Multipartite edge modes and tensor networks
Chris Akers, Ronak M. Soni, Annie Y. Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03651 https://arxiv.o…

Multipartite edge modes and tensor networks
Holographic tensor networks model AdS/CFT, but so far they have been limited by involving only systems that are very different from gravity. Unfortunately, we cannot straightforwardly discretize gravity to incorporate it, because that would break diffeomorphism invariance. In this note, we explore a resolution. In low dimensions gravity can be written as a topological gauge theory, which can be discretized without breaking gauge-invariance. However, new problems arise. Foremost, we now need a q…

Out of all the posts arguing against the man or bear question none have been written by a bear. Very telling indeed

"The design goal for Word 5.1 for Mac OS X was to create a clean, carbonized version that would run natively under Mac OS X with as few changes from the original version as possible."
😏
https://tidbits.com/2003/04/01/microsoft-word-5-1-…

I bet the same people who are incessantly nitpicking and correcting people on social media are at the same time super into AI and don’t mind at all to generate badly written lying garbage

Technical, organizational and oral history regarding the soil samples measurements for Cs-137 because of the Chernobyl accident fallout
Nick P. Petropoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00692 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.00692
arXiv:2405.00692v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Data are given, commentary is supplied and explanations are provided with regard to the technical, the organizational and, of course, the human history connected to the time of research, which resulted to the paper entitled "Soil sampling and Cs-137 analysis of the Chernobyl fallout in Greece", written by late Professor S.E. Simopoulos. This paper has been provided in Greek translation within an issued honorary volume (ISBN 978-960-254-714-4). Reasonably, the narration starts with the review of the political, the financial and the social situation of Greece around 1986. Subsequently, an analysis is given on the then available means, the persons involved, the methods used, the lessons learned and any other connection with the oral history of the NTUA's Nuclear Engineering Laboratory and other relevant Greek Laboratories. For this history, written proof is now scarce and the persons available to pass it on are growing less and less. N.P. Petropoulos, now Laboratory member and then student of Professor S.E. Simopoulos was in charge of preparation of this text.

‘Mrs Sherlock Holmes’ and the other real female sleuths who were written out of history;
An opera diva, a queen of surveillance & Selfridges’ ‘secret service’ head were among the women who rivalled male private eyes and whose stories are told in a new book

“A rising tide of muck”…
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/01/pulumi_ai_pollution_of_search/

Google Search results polluted by buggy AI-written code frustrate coders
Pulumi claims it has culled bad infrastructure-as-code samples

Some scifi dystopias shit.
Axon Wants Its Body Cameras To Start Writing Officers’ Reports For Them
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/02/axon-wants-its-body-cameras-to-start-writing-officers-reports-for-them/

Axon Wants Its Body Cameras To Start Writing Officers’ Reports For Them
Taser long ago locked down the market for “less than lethal” (but still frequently lethal) weapons. It has also written itself into the annals of pseudoscience with its invocation of no…

Written by Zack Budryk:
"[...] fictional representations of autistic women remain rare. Three recent examples in the mystery genre are helping to make up this gender gap and illustrating the range of the spectrum with very different but equally unforgettable female protagonists. In these stories, crucially, autism isn’t a superpower but a part of the protagonist’s personality that can frustrate her efforts as often as it can help point her to the truth."

Now to figure out why the JCL for a security report works for one security account but not the other. I suspect someone playing games in a script I cannot see. I would prefer a properly written program that any security account can run without jumping through hoops and screens and dump it to a user specified file rather than SDSF. Once we get it into a file I can write a program to generate a formatted report for the various control officers to review and clean up.

Total strangers or "bullied off the network". #Mastodon turns out to be no island of happiness. Everyones network costs a sight of a public space or forum that is disparate and ensemble. The great welcoming of this part of the Fediverse seems to rely on "internal knowledge that’s not really written down anywhere". Practise and text, law?, are informal in terms of open reading. Don&…

Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon's Toxicity
It turns out, if people in an online community really don't like what you're doing, they can turn to harassment, threats, or worse to try to shut you down.

- https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan
- https://koofr.eu/

GitHub - siyuan-note/siyuan: A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.
A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang. - siyuan-note/siyuan

The point of writing is not to generate a written document
It's to communicate an idea. In business writing it's usually to communicate a _persuasive_ idea
The people @… referred to here,who dislike reading and writing and would rather a machine generated that writing for them — they don't get this bit.

How Much of the Bible Was Written by Enslaved People?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-much-of-the-bible-was-written-by-enslaved-people

How Much of the Bible Was Written by Enslaved People?
We know Paul himself did not actually draft his letters to far-flung Christians, for example, but it’s still unclear how much credit he shares with his enslaved secretaries.

infrastructure mgmt methods compared as a thermostat:
- managed service: email butler to change thermostat
- SaaS product: the office thermostats are fake
- console/manual: you light the furnace yourself
- terraform/bash (the CSV/JSON of programming): ??? the robotic arm manipulator at a nuclear facility tries to set a thermostat, but it's clunky and brittle
- ansible/kubernetes: you order a medium rare thermostat. it tries to hit that temperature but might not be a good cook. you speak secret incantations.
- python/typescript/golang: you have much more precise chefs.
- literal service API thing reconciling state: you've written a thermostat (k8s lets you write your own drivers)
the terraform version of this is... one and done "infrastructure as code"
the literal reconciler thermostat thing... is that... "infrastructure as daemons"? "infrastructure as... APIs"? Infra as services?
I swear @krisnova@hachyderm.io (RIP <3) had a word for it.
#infrastructure #cloudarchitecture #krisnova
found!: "Infrastructure as Software"

Okay, here is my take on Nielsen's latest post.

"Accessibility has failed as a way to make computers usable for disabled users." Thus begins a newsletter by Jakob Nielsen. And had it not been written by someone a great many people take seriously in the UX industry I likely would just have dismissed it. But seeing how harmful I consider the post to potentially be, I would like to nip this in the bud. My reflection is that the published post is misleading, self-contradictor…

Another in what could’ve been a thread, except for reasons to follow, noting and often lamenting the dreary vicissitudes of becoming old, as I experience it. I’m stupider than I used to be. I’ve been trying to read a book. I want to read it. I’ve enjoyed reading almost everything written by the author for the past 40-50 years. I’m struggling with it, and didn’t use to. It’s complex, to be sure, and dense. I used to practically frolic thru stuff like this. Sadly, those days…
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Teleworking today.
And laughing with my 12 yo's dark sense of humor. Or maybe its just whats on his mind.
I was looking for something in his room and found this:
A sign :
“R.I.P.
#MechanicalKeyboard with custom caps.
2021-2024
My first #keyboard”…

New Age-Appropriate Design Code Framework Takes Hold in Maryland
https://fpf.org/blog/new-age-appropriate-design-code-framework-takes-hold-in-maryland/
@…

I think I’ve become good at recognizing AI written text and just told a guy I know (who keeps posting it) “If you couldn’t take the time to write it I won’t take the time to read it.”

Semi-Instruct: Bridging Natural-Instruct and Self-Instruct for Code Large Language Models
Xianzhen Luo, Qingfu Zhu, Zhiming Zhang, Xu Wang, Qing Yang, Dongliang Xu, Wanxiang Che
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00338

Semi-Instruct: Bridging Natural-Instruct and Self-Instruct for Code Large Language Models
Instruction tuning plays a pivotal role in Code Large Language Models (Code LLMs) for the task of program synthesis. Presently, two dominant paradigms for collecting tuning data are natural-instruct (human-written) and self-instruct (automatically generated). Natural-instruct includes diverse and correct codes but lacks instruction-code pairs, and exists improper code formats like nested single-line codes. In contrast, self-instruct automatically generates proper paired data. However, it suffer…

Hey guys. I've decided to actually make the website. I've decided that it makes more sense as an archive or a library, for publishing finished works. Perhaps a forge project can come later. I believe I've written down the basics of what I want, but there's a tiny problem. We'll be archiving mostly physical objects, so we need digital formats that correspond to these physical items.
This is where I get stuck.

AlloyASG: Alloy Predicate Code Representation as a Compact Structurally Balanced Graph
Guanxuan Wu, Allison Sullivan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00170 https…

AlloyASG: Alloy Predicate Code Representation as a Compact Structurally Balanced Graph
In the program analysis and automated bug-fixing fields, it is common to create an abstract interpretation of a program's source code as an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST), which enables programs written in a high-level language to have various static and dynamic analyses applied. However, ASTs suffer from exponential growth in their data size due to the limitation that ASTs will often have identical nodes separately listed in the tree. To address this issue, we introduce a novel code representation…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02725 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Congruence classes for modular forms over small sets
J.P. Serre showed that for any integer $m,~a(n)\equiv 0 \pmod m$ for almost all $n,$ where $a(n)$ is the $n^{\text{th}}$ Fourier coefficient of any modular form with rational coefficients. In this article, we consider a certain class of cuspforms and study $\#\{a(n) \pmod m\}_{n\leq x}$ over the set of integers with $O(1)$ many prime factors. Moreover, we show that any residue class $a\in \mathbb{Z}/m\mathbb{Z}$ can be written as the sum of at most thirteen Fourier coefficients, which are polyn…

@… It was a double edged sword, but definitely a big driver in getting me where I am today.
It was just a collection of perl scripts written mostly by students over the years, but they presented a terminal “GUI” in the same way k9s does. That’s what reminded me.

wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 40254 nodes and 190279 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph…

Multipartite edge modes and tensor networks
Chris Akers, Ronak M. Soni, Annie Y. Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03651 https://arxiv.o…

Multipartite edge modes and tensor networks
Holographic tensor networks model AdS/CFT, but so far they have been limited by involving only systems that are very different from gravity. Unfortunately, we cannot straightforwardly discretize gravity to incorporate it, because that would break diffeomorphism invariance. In this note, we explore a resolution. In low dimensions gravity can be written as a topological gauge theory, which can be discretized without breaking gauge-invariance. However, new problems arise. Foremost, we now need a q…

One of my friends went the more subtle route of just drawing a big penis with "starmer" written on it, but I wanted something where it's clear my problem isn't with the candidate, it's with the whole broken fraudulent system.

“A rising tide of muck”…
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/01/pulumi_ai_pollution_of_search/

Google Search results polluted by buggy AI-written code frustrate coders
Pulumi claims it has culled bad infrastructure-as-code samples

“Victory” threat: how the Kremlin is preparing for revenge in Moldova Written by Anton Khimiak, UCMC/HWAG analyst On April 21, 2024, a meeting of pro-Russian opposition figures of Moldova was held in Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/pogrozy-peremog…

Written by Zack Budryk:
"[...] fictional representations of autistic women remain rare. Three recent examples in the mystery genre are helping to make up this gender gap and illustrating the range of the spectrum with very different but equally unforgettable female protagonists. In these stories, crucially, autism isn’t a superpower but a part of the protagonist’s personality that can frustrate her efforts as often as it can help point her to the truth."

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

"History is written by the Victors" also means that the Victors will complain when people want to teach the history of the other side... that is the basis of Truth and Reconciliation.
As with any situation the world has faced with genocidal, apartheid policies, in South Africa, in Canada, or in Israel and Palestine.
Isralies and Palestinians and the entire world including Canada will need to go through a process of Truth and Reconciliation. Happy to see the BC Federati…

infrastructure mgmt methods compared as a thermostat:
- managed service: email butler to change thermostat
- SaaS product: the office thermostats are fake
- console/manual: you light the furnace yourself
- terraform/bash (the CSV/JSON of programming): ??? the robotic arm manipulator at a nuclear facility tries to set a thermostat, but it's clunky and brittle
- ansible/kubernetes: you order a medium rare thermostat. it tries to hit that temperature but might not be a good cook. you speak secret incantations.
- python/typescript/golang: you have much more precise chefs.
- literal service API thing reconciling state: you've written a thermostat (k8s lets you write your own drivers)
the terraform version of this is... one and done "infrastructure as code"
the literal reconciler thermostat thing... is that... "infrastructure as daemons"? "infrastructure as... APIs"? Infra as services?
I swear @krisnova@hachyderm.io (RIP <3) had a word for it.
#infrastructure #cloudarchitecture #krisnova
found!: "Infrastructure as Software"

Brave launches its AI-powered assistant Leo, which can create real-time summaries of webpages or videos, generate long form content, and more, on Android (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/29/braves-leo-ai-assistant…

Brave's Leo AI assistant is now available to Android users | TechCrunch
The assistant allows users to ask questions, translate pages, summarize pages, create written content and more.

Teleworking today.
And laughing with my 12 yo's dark sense of humor. Or maybe its just whats on his mind.
I was looking for something in his room and found this:
A sign :
“R.I.P.
#MechanicalKeyboard with custom caps.
2021-2024
My first #keyboard”…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06533 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hept…

2PM waveform from loop corrected soft theorems
We introduce a classical version of the loop corrected soft graviton theorem and we use it to compute the universal part of the one-loop (2PM) waveform up to sub-subleading order in the energy $ω$ of the emitted graviton for spinless black-hole scattering. In particular, we compute the action of the soft operators on the classically resummed four-point amplitude, that can be written in terms of the exponential of the eikonal phase (and is therefore non-perturbative in the Newton's constant $G_…

One of my friends went the more subtle route of just drawing a big penis with "starmer" written on it, but I wanted something where it's clear my problem isn't with the candidate, it's with the whole broken fraudulent system.

Explaining Propaganda. Why Zelensky’s Interview Views Fail in Comparison to Putin’s (Tucker Carlson Interview) Written by Matt Wickham, analyst UCMC/HWAG As the hype surrounding the Carlson interview Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/…

Which Nigerian-Pidgin does Generative AI speak?: Issues about Representativeness and Bias for Multilingual and Low Resource Languages
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, A. Seza Do\u{g}ru\"oz, Iyanuoluwa Shode, Anuoluwapo Aremu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19442 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19442
arXiv:2404.19442v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Naija is the Nigerian-Pidgin spoken by approx. 120M speakers in Nigeria and it is a mixed language (e.g., English, Portuguese and Indigenous languages). Although it has mainly been a spoken language until recently, there are currently two written genres (BBC and Wikipedia) in Naija. Through statistical analyses and Machine Translation experiments, we prove that these two genres do not represent each other (i.e., there are linguistic differences in word order and vocabulary) and Generative AI operates only based on Naija written in the BBC genre. In other words, Naija written in Wikipedia genre is not represented in Generative AI.

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 34613 nodes and 202167 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09690 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Configuration Validation with Large Language Models
Misconfigurations are major causes of software failures. Existing practices rely on developer-written rules or test cases to validate configurations, which are expensive. Machine learning (ML) for configuration validation is considered a promising direction, but has been facing challenges such as the need of large-scale field data and system-specific models. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise in addressing some of the long-lasting limitations of ML-based configuration …

RFK Jr. potluck derailed as staff fears electromagnetic radiation from microwaves: WSJ - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-jr-2668130847/

RFK Jr. potluck derailed as staff fears electromagnetic radiation from microwaves: WSJ
The Wall Street Journal has written a lengthy story about the longshot presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968.The report contains a number of eye-opening passages, including a quote...

European Peace Facility on the Warpath Written by Anton Khimiak, analyst – Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group/UCMC On March 18, the EU Foreign Affairs Council agreed to provide an additional €5 billion i Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/european-peace-facility-on-the-warpath…

Verified. 10 years of Revolution of Dignity. RUSpropaganda Rhetoric, debunked Written by Anastasiia Ratieieva, analyst, HWAG/UCMC Propaganda Digest: This is our weekly analysis that exposes the most e Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/verified-10-ye